The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Serval Reclaim Your Phone “Communications should not just be for the geographically, financially or otherwise fortunate — for it is the unfortunate who need it most.” Serval is a telecommunications system comprised of at least two mobile phones that are able to work outside of regular mobile phone tower range due thanks to the Serval …
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There is a gradual awakening occurring among groups that have been focused on individual electoral reform issues. They are not yet ready to converge and make “total electoral reform” the litmus test for every candidate for public office, but some small signs of progress are present.Lawrence Lessig seems to be evolving away from his single …
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CROWD-SOURCING THE TREATY VERIFICATION PROBLEM “Never before has so much information and analysis been so widely and openly available. The opportunities for addressing future [treaty] monitoring challenges include the ability to track activity, materials and components in far more detail than previously, both for purposes of treaty verification and to counter WMD proliferation,” according to …
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House gets green light for open source The House of Representatives has officially jumped on the open source bandwagon. A June 25 announcement declared that U.S. representatives, committees and staff would be able to procure open source software, participate in open source software communities and contribute code developed with taxpayer dollars to open source repositories.
Good, this is. EnergyTorrent Releases Open-Source Documentation Of Its Solar Concentrators Renewable energy has just become a closer option for everyone. And it is not about the price but rather about the access to the very technology of using solar energy. In this case, it is about solar concentrators — devices allowing you to obtain high-temperature heat …
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Rise, you will. Below is the first announcement of an Open Source Everything wiki facilitating easy comprehensive documentation and outreach across the nine major open sub-categories listed below. 1. Open Data . 2. Open Governance . 3. Open Health . 4. Open Infrastructures . 5. Open Intelligence . 6. Open Manufacturing . 7. Open Provisioning …
F. No. 1(3)/2014 – EG II Ministry of Communication & Information Technology Department of Electronics & Information Technology POLICY Title of Policy: “Policy on Adoption of Open Source Software for Government of India” Preamble Government of India (GoI) is implementing the Digital India programme as an umbrella programme to prepare India for a knowledge based …
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